Re: [PATCH] perf, x86, uncore, hsw-ep: Handle systems with only two SBOXes

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jan 07 2015 - 06:42:45 EST


On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 02:34:35PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> There was another report of a boot failure with a #GP fault in the
> uncore SBOX initialization. The earlier work around was not enough
> for this system.
>
> The boot was failing while trying to initialize the third SBOX.
>
> This patch detects parts with only two SBOXes and limits the number
> of SBOX units to two there.
>

Thanks!
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